“Frankly astonishing” – The Late Season by Stephen Hines
“Feels like an unfortunate step backwards – Safe by Ryan Gattis
“The characters, period and locations are vividly painted” – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
“A promising but problematic debut” – Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
“A possible contender for book of the year” – The Things I Would Tell You ed. by Sabrina Mahfouz
“It’s hard to work out what fits where, what is relevant and what isn’t” – The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
‘Enough red herrings to make you sick of rollmops’ – The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
“You don’t need to have read anything previously by Eugenides to enjoy this collection” – Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
‘Comes with a guarantee of great prose’ – The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
“More faltering than it is striking” – Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
“Another winner from TC” – The Terranauts by TC Boyle
“Like an old photograph, it illuminates everything to a sudden point of clarity” – Echoland by Per Petterson
“As good a collection as he’s done” – The Relive Box & Other Stories by TC Boyle
“There are plot points here that take credulity out to the shed where an almighty whupping is administered” – Sleeping Beauties by Owen King and Stephen King
“Should be considered as more than a rock memoir” – Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands by Will Carruthers
“In some ways it’s a reward…; in other ways (it’s) a test…” – 4321 by Paul Auster
“There are no bad stories here” – Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick
“Myers is, unusually among contemporary writers (perhaps), best read in his entirety” – These Darkening Days by Benjamin Myers
“There’s real honesty in the mongrel voices that Lynn Gaspard, the editor, has put together” – Don’t Panic I’m Islamic, ed. Lynn Gaspard
“This is a book that gathers energy and urgency as it goes on” – Protest: Stories of Resistance, ed. Ra Page
“For an insight into modern Israeli society Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel should serve as an excellent jumping off point” – An Egyptian Novel by Orly Castel-Bloom
“Fluent, effective storytelling” – Selected Stories by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
“An important book” – Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women – edited by Aamer Hussein
“One of Coetzee’s less successful works” – The Schooldays of Jesus by JM Coetzee
“You will be moved by this book” – Year of the Drought by Roland Buti
“Says a lot about what it is to be a man at this particular point in the history of the world” – Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart
“It really is as brilliant as everyone has been writing” – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
September: On The Pile
